8:46 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — From the moment Mark Messier came to the New York Rangers in 1991, he knew he was expected to lead the team to its first Stanley Cup championship in more than 50 years. “There was no escaping the pressure of 1940,” Messier said of the last
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7:14 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Columbus Blue Jackets leading scorer Artemi Panarin has fired his agent Dan Milstein in favor of Paul Theofanous, the agent of teammate Sergei Bobrovsky, and said he will test free agency this summer. Panarin issued a statement Friday that read, “I have decided to hire Paul Theofanous as my agent.
5:11 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Philadelphia Flyers forward James van Riemsdyk on Friday was fined $5,000 by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for high-sticking Los Angeles Kings defenseman Alec Martinez during Thursday’s game. Van Riemsdyk was docked the maximum amount under the league’s collective bargaining agreement. The high-sticking occurred just over
2:16 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN One of the most incredible stories of the 2018-19 NHL season has been the emergence of goalie Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers. Not because a rookie is helping a team resurrect its season — I mean, Jordan Binnington is basically doing the same thing in St. Louis — but
12:59 AM ET Associated Press Almost every team in the NHL was in action Thursday night — and most of them came away with at least a point. A record-tying eight games went to overtime. That tied the mark set Feb. 22, 2007, and matched Nov. 27, 2015, both when eight of 12 games required
5:52 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — The Maple Leafs rode the subway two stops to city hall for an outdoor practice at Nathan Phillips Square. Auston Matthews, Jake Muzzin and Connor Brown took the honors Thursday in the Maple Leafs’ 3-on-3 outdoor tournament, with fans lining up eight or nine deep to see the
8:51 PM ET With a eye toward kick-starting one last push to the playoffs, the Buffalo Sabres are shaking things up at both ends of the ice. Up front, that means a dismantling of the club’s top trio of Jack Eichel, Jeff Skinner and Sam Reinhart. Coach Phil Housley appears eager to roll out Jason
1:53 PM ET The deals made at the NHL trade deadline will shape the way the rest of the season plays out. Everything from blockbusters to under-the-radar trades can make all the difference come playoff time. Here’s a look at every team’s current trade-deadline state and their most pressing question as they head into the
11:21 AM ET Welcome to a weekly feature where we have some fun with underlying numbers. We highlight a couple of trends, then dig beneath the surface to get a better sense of what these trends ultimately mean, what’s causing them and how likely it is that they’ll continue. Think of these analyses as bite-sized
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN SAN JOSE — Mikko Rantanen roamed the grounds of Scott McNealy’s $100 million mansion in Palo Alto, California, on the Friday of NHL All-Star Weekend. He saw the indoor gymnasium adjacent to the den, complete with a rock climbing wall. He saw the three-hole golf course on the lawn near